A long walk in the woods is a spiritual practice in itself.

In the woods, you feel more like yourself—which is to say less like your personality, less like your problems and your to-do list, and more like emptiness, silence, and joy.

The beauty of nature’s creations makes it easy to see clearly. Every flower, every leaf, every stone or piece of moss, every root a work of art, unique in all of time and space.

The forest and everything in it is just quietly existing, the trees standing where they have stood for years or decades or centuries.

Yet everything in this living world is changing. Nature does not like straight lines and it does not like to be static. It never stops reinventing itself. In the forest, and in all of nature, growth and decay is the only constant.

With this impermanence as the rule of nature, why do we assume that we are somehow the exception?

If you look closely, you will find that your body, your mind, and your emotions have never been the same even from one moment to the next—yet there is something which does not change and never has changed, and which is mysteriously the same as the ephemeral beauty of that fern and the dancing tree leaves and the song of that bird fluttering just beyond the corner of your eye.

Keep walking. Let your intuition be your guide. Move when it’s time to move and rest when it’s time to rest, letting yourself melt into the Present Moment, your heart, which embraces with love all forms that arise from it.

For no reason at all, you smile and fondly stroke the bark of a tree like the hand of an old friend.

Now close your eyes for a moment. Feel your heart, radiating that same beauty as always, lovingly dissolving ferns and trees and forests into itself. You are home.

By Tasha Friedman

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